The Maharashtra government's mega loan waiver scheme has benefited even imprisoned farmers, said an official. Eighty-eight prisoners, who are farmers by profession and lodged in Nagpur and Nashik central jails, were encouraged to apply for loan waiver under the scheme announced in June last year by the government. Of these, 56 have received its benefits, former Nagpur collector Sachin Kurve told PTI.

Kurve served as collector of Nagpur district from May 2015 to April 2018. Kurve, currently Mumbai suburban district collector, said the applications of other farmer-prisoners, apart from 88, were rejected as they had provided insufficient documents or their names did not match with that on their Aadhaar cards.